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NewSQL

NewSQL proper noun: a class of relational database management systems that seek to provide the scalability of NoSQL for online transaction processing (OLTP) read-write workloads while still maintaining the ACID guarantees of a traditional database.

Proper noun

NewSQL

  1. A class of relational database management systems that seek to provide the scalability of NoSQL for online transaction processing (OLTP) read-write workloads while still maintaining the ACID guarantees of a traditional database.

Origin of NewSQL

From new + SQL.

Questions about NewSQL

What does NewSQL mean?
NewSQL means a class of relational database management systems that seek to provide the scalability of NoSQL for online transaction processing (OLTP) read-write workloads while still maintaining the ACID guarantees of a traditional database.
What part of speech is NewSQL?
NewSQL is a proper noun.

Words near NewSQL in the dictionary

  1. newsplans
  2. newspost
  3. newsposts
  4. newsprint
  5. newsprints
  6. NewSQL
  7. newsreader
  8. newsreaderess
  9. newsreaders
  10. newsreading
  11. newsreel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: NewSQL (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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